Printers galley



Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

W. W. GILMAN.

PRINTERS GALLEY.

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XVILLIAM XV. GILMAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

PRINTERS GALLEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,208, dated March 8, 1887.

Application filed March 20, 1886. Serial No. 196,025. (ModeLl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. G-ILMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printers Galleys, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements made in respect to the operating of side-sticks of printers galleys from a standpoint more or less distant from the matter to be held locked therein.

My improvements consist in certain novel construction and arrangement of the sidestick connected to a side plate of the galleyframe by pivoted swinging arms, and a slotted plate operating upon the side-stick, whereby a parallel position equidistant of the sidestick with the side rail of the galley is always maintained, and to an easy means for operating and holding the side-stick in the desired position.

The construction, application, and operation of these parts are fully explained in the following descriptiomthe accompanying drawings, referred to by figures and letters, forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of my improved printers galley. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th rou ghout the several views The base-plate A of my printers galley is made of one sheet of metal and of a sufficient width to receive and hold aside rail, B,w hich latter may be constructed of wood. Aplate, G, bent at a right angle, incloses a portion of the bottom and the inner face of the rail B. The wooden rail 13 also extends at a right angle across one end of the galley, and has its seat in an angle-plate similar to the plate 0 of the side railhereinbefore mentioned. These angleplates are all secured to the base-plate by screws, and to the outer edge of the base-plate is connected a strip of metal or plate, D, by brazing or otherwise, in such a manner as to make a secure joint. The inner edge of this plate is beveled, and the plate is of considerable thickness, so as to elevate the swinging arms E E E sufficiently to enable them to be conveniently connected with the side-stick in such a manner as to move freely and out of contact with the base A, said arms E being pivoted upon the top of the strip D.

The side-stick is composed of a T- shaped piece of metal, F, and the inner end thereof is provided with a projection or hooked lug, G, which moves ina slot, G ,of the vertical plate H,set edgewise at the head of the galleyframe. Over the side-stick is placedasliding plate, I, slotted at 1*, which is pivoted to the swinging arms E by the pins or set-screws J, which latter also pass through the side-stick. The sliding plate moves upon a set-screw, K, which enters the sidestick and limits the throw of the sliding plate when it is carried backward or forward upon the face of the side stick.

In practice,and when requisite to move the side-stick toward or away from the side rail of the galley, the compositor places his thumb or fingers upon the projecting lug L and moves the sliding plate outward or backward, as the case may require, upon the sidestick, limiting its movement by the slot and set-screw, and carrying the side-stick with it, which causes the pivoted swinging arms to assume a greater or less degree of inclination. and maintain a true parallelism of the side-stick equidistant from and with the side rail of the galley, while the swinging arms will be gradually closed up under the side-stick, between it and the side strip orplate, D. Thus it will be seen that a true parallelism of the side'stick equidistant with the side rail of the galley can be attained and the side-stick be held firmly at any necessary point by the setscrew to accommodate the different sticks of matter from the compositors hand, which matter can be easily and quickly locked up by the foot lock-upM,

and kept from being pied or disturbed when the side-stick is moved to add new matter to the galley.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is

1. The combination, with the galleyframe, of a slotted side-stick carrying a slotted slidingplate, held in position thereon by suitable means, as described, and the swinging arms pivoted to the sliding plate, and. likewise to plate and stick and pivoted on the strip I), all

the side of the galley-frame, so as to operate arranged substantiallyasshown and described. IO

substantially as set forth. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 2. The combination of the galley-frame prohave hereunto set my hand and seal.

5 vided with the strip D, the slotted side-stick, WILLIAM WV. GILMAN. [L. s.]

the slotted sliding plate carried thereon and 'Witnesses: held in place by a set-screw, and the swing- O. W. M. SMITH, ing arms E E E, connected with the sliding CHAS. E. KELLY. 

